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Twin Commander pilots gather to learn at ‘TCU’

During its 50-year history the Twin Commander line of business aircraft has occupied a special niche.

By Harry Weisberger • Contributor

October 11, 2007

During its 50-year history the Twin Commander line of business aircraft has occupied a special niche. Today, just as when the original purpose-built corporate and executive transport, the $45,000 Aero Commander Model 520, entered the market in January 1952, a high percentage of these aircraft–even the turbine-powered models–are flown not by full-time professional pilots but by their owners.

Because of that, every other year Twin Commander owners, operators and pilots from around the world, representing every piston and turboprop model and vintage, convene for a three-day “Twin Commander University (TCU),” where they experience an intensive immersion in type-specific topics. The sixth of these get-togethers, presented by the current holder of the Commander twin type certificates, Twin Commander Aircraft Corp. (TCAC), of Arlington, Wash., took place at the end of March in Paradise Valley, Ariz., at the La Posada Resort.

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